GRE Word List

MIRE

wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh)

The meaning of the word mire is wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh).

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WordMeaning
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magnitudegreat size or extent
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sheafa quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together
beleaguerbesiege
atavismrecurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination