GRE Word List
LAP
a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment
The meaning of the word lap is a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment.
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| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
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| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| privy | private |
| compact | predominantly formed or filled : composed |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| exhume | disinter |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |