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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| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| impregnable | incapable of being taken by assault : unconquerable |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |