GRE Word List
LECTERN
a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker
The meaning of the word lectern is a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| beget | to procreate as the father : sire |
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| 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 |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |