GRE Word List
MORTICIAN
undertaker
The meaning of the word mortician is undertaker.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| agitate | to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of : disturb |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| actuary | clerk |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |