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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| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| 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 |
| alleviate | relieve |