GRE Word List
ISTHMUS
a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas
The meaning of the word isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas.
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| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| propellant | capable of propelling |
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
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| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
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