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 |
|---|---|
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| wanton | merciless |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| bland | smooth and soothing in manner or quality |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
| distort | to twist (see twist |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |