GRE Word List
OBSIDIAN
a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava
The meaning of the word obsidian is a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava.
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| odorous | having an odor: such as |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| 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 |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| lackadaisical | lacking life, spirit, or zest : languid |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| opulence | wealth |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |