GRE Word List
LANCE
a steel-tipped spear carried by mounted knights or light cavalry
The meaning of the word lance is a steel-tipped spear carried by mounted knights or light cavalry.
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procurement | the act or process of procuring |
disheveled | marked by disorder or disarray |
tribute | something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved |
potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
trinket | a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring) |
burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
egotistical | characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance |
creep | to move along with the body prone and close to the ground |
gerontocracy | rule by elders |