GRE Word List
INURED
to accustom to accept something undesirable
The meaning of the word inured is to accustom to accept something undesirable.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| entrance | power or permission to enter : admission |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| indulgent | willing to allow excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration : indulging or characterized by indulgence |
| 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 |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| doddering | feeble |
| cipher | zero |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| brandish | to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly |