GRE Word List
MURAL
of, relating to, or resembling a wall
The meaning of the word mural is of, relating to, or resembling a wall.
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| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| 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 |
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| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
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| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
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