GRE Word List
MORGUE
a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy
The meaning of the word morgue is a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| scion | descendant |
| discompose | to destroy the composure of |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |