GRE Word List
OSSEOUS
bony
The meaning of the word osseous is bony.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |