GRE Word List
MORTAR
a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle
The meaning of the word mortar is a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
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| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |