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 |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| astringent | causing a tightening of soft organic tissues : styptic |
| yokel | a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| spoof | deceive |
| kernel | the inner softer part of a seed, fruit stone, or nut |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| hierarchy | a division of angels |