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 |
|---|---|
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |
| accede | to express approval or give consent : to agree to a request or demand |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| acclaim | applaud |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |