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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| salubrious | favorable to or promoting health or well-being |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| amity | friendship |
| lethal | of, relating to, or causing death |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| benison | blessing |