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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expound | to set forth : state |
| inert | lacking the power to move |
| predispose | to dispose in advance |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |