GRE Word List
MARROW
soft fatty tissue that fills most bone cavities and is the source of blood cells
The meaning of the word marrow is soft fatty tissue that fills most bone cavities and is the source of blood cells.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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engender | cause; produce; give rise to |
sow | plant or scatter seed |
corpulent | very fat; N. corpulence |
incontinent | lacking self-restraint; not continent; licentious |
homily | sermon; tedious moralizing lecture; serious warning; ADJ. homiletic |
resilient | elastic; having the power of springing back; able to recover quickly (as from misfortune) |
trance | hypnotic state; ecstatic state; detachment from one's physical surrounding (as in contemplation or daydreaming); CF. transition |
prong | pointed projecting part |
prosaic | lacking in imagination; dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact(concerned with facts, not imagination or feelings); factual; CF. prose |
camaraderie | good-fellowship; CF. comrade |