GRE Word List
MANIFOLD
marked by diversity or variety
The meaning of the word manifold is marked by diversity or variety.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| animosity | a strong feeling of dislike or hatred : ill will or resentment tending toward active hostility : an antagonistic attitude |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |