GRE Word List
OBITUARY
a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account
The meaning of the word obituary is a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| abide | to bear patiently : tolerate |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |