GRE Word List
INTER
to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb
The meaning of the word inter is to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| yore | time past and especially long past |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| hull | the outer covering of a fruit or seed |