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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luscious | having a delicious taste or smell : sweet |
foible | the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point |
amorous | strongly moved by love and especially sexual love |
reinstate | to place again (as in possession or in a former position) |
drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
abjure | to renounce upon oath |
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