GRE Word List

OSSEOUS

bony

The meaning of the word osseous is bony.

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outstripto go faster or farther than
scapegoata goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur
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