GRE Word List
MATRIMONY
the state of being married : marriage
The meaning of the word matrimony is the state of being married : marriage.
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| escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
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| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| feature | the structure, form, or appearance especially of a person |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| 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 |
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| parochial | of or relating to a church parish |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
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