GRE Word List
MAR
to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil
The meaning of the word mar is to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| saturate | to satisfy fully : satiate |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| jurisprudence | the science or philosophy of law |