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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| propitiate | to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease |
| uncouth | awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior : rude |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| intrigue | the practice of engaging in secret schemes |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |