GRE Word List

OPUS

work

The meaning of the word opus is work.

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unguenta soothing or healing salve : ointment
refuseto express oneself as unwilling to accept
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juncturea point of time
incidentan occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening
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schematicof or relating to a scheme or schema
galea strong current of air:
etymologythe 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