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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calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
gamely | a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other |
sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |