GRE Word List
HUMMOCK
a rounded knoll or hillock
The meaning of the word hummock is a rounded knoll or hillock.
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| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| compact | predominantly formed or filled : composed |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| bitter | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is peculiarly acrid, astringent, and often disagreeable and characteristic of citrus peels, unsweetened cocoa, black coffee, mature leafy greens (such as kale or mustard), or ale |