GRE Word List

NAVIGABLE

deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships

The meaning of the word navigable is deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships.

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mammalany 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
judiciarya system of courts of law
drollhaving a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality
limnto draw or paint on a surface
tempestuousof, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent
backslideto lapse morally or in the practice of religion
certitudethe state of being or feeling certain
tokena piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms
encumberweigh down
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