GRE Word List
NOURISHMENT
food
The meaning of the word nourishment is food.
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| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| modulate | to tune to a key or pitch |
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
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| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |