GRE Word List
OSSEOUS
bony
The meaning of the word osseous is bony.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| salubrious | favorable to or promoting health or well-being |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |
| alleviate | relieve |