GRE Word List

NOURISHMENT

food

The meaning of the word nourishment is food.

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solaceto give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console
courtthe residence or establishment of a sovereign or similar dignitary
prolificproducing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful
accelerateto move faster : to gain speed
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irrevocablenot possible to revoke : unalterable
engulfto flow over and enclose : overwhelm
defeatistan attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat
nauticalof, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships
etymologythe 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