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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|---|---|
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| provision | the act or process of providing |
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| synthesis | the composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| finished | entirely done |