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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| vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
| warranty | a real covenant binding the grantor of an estate and the grantor's heirs to warrant and defend the title |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |