GRE Word List
MARROW
bone marrow
The meaning of the word marrow is bone marrow.
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| turmoil | a state or condition of extreme confusion, agitation, or commotion |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| supersede | to cause to be set aside |