GRE Word List
INERT
lacking the power to move
The meaning of the word inert is lacking the power to move.
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| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| omnipotent | almighty |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
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