GRE Word List
INVETERATE
confirmed in a habit : habitual
The meaning of the word inveterate is confirmed in a habit : habitual.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| retrench | cut down |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |