GRE Word List
MAT
a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support
The meaning of the word mat is a piece of coarse, woven, plaited, or felted fabric used especially as a floor covering or a support.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lugubrious | mournful |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| seismic | of, subject to, or caused by an earthquake |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |
| 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 |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |