GRE Word List
LEASH
a line for leading or restraining an animal
The meaning of the word leash is a line for leading or restraining an animal.
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|---|---|
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| actuary | clerk |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |