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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| conspire | plot |
| 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 |
| healthful | beneficial to health of body or mind |
| tome | book |
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| hirsute | hairy |
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| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |