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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| foible | the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| feint | something feigned |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| troth | loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| etymology | the 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 |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |