GRE Word List
OSSEOUS
bony
The meaning of the word osseous is bony.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| dissolution | the act or process of dissolving: such as |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| purse | a small bag for money |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |