GRE Word List
OSSEOUS
bony
The meaning of the word osseous is bony.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| rapport | a friendly, harmonious relationship |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |