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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| oblivious | lacking remembrance, memory, or mindful attention |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| satellite | a celestial body orbiting another of larger size |
| malodorous | having a bad odor |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| rejuvenate | to make young or youthful again : give new vigor to |
| facet | any of the definable aspects that make up a subject (as of contemplation) or an object (as of consideration) |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |