GRE Word List
MENDICANT
beggar
The meaning of the word mendicant is beggar.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inculcate | to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| cogitate | to ponder or meditate on usually intently |
| shambles | a meat market |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |