GRE Word List
MONOGRAPH
a learned treatise on a small area of learning
The meaning of the word monograph is a learned treatise on a small area of learning.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| dilemma | a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
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| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
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| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| impregnable | incapable of being taken by assault : unconquerable |
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