GRE Word List
OSSEOUS
bony
The meaning of the word osseous is bony.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| nebula | any of numerous clouds of gas or dust in interstellar space |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |