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 |
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| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| swill | wash |
| velocity | quickness of motion : speed |
| retrench | cut down |
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| append | attach |
| marrow | bone marrow |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| thematic | of, relating to, or constituting a theme |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |