GRE Word List
OSSEOUS
bony
The meaning of the word osseous is bony.
Random words
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| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| auroral | dawn |
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| pilfer | steal |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| lassitude | a condition of weariness or debility : fatigue |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| outmoded | not being in style |
| pestle | a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration |