GRE Word List
OSSEOUS
bony
The meaning of the word osseous is bony.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| snicker | to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter |
| sycophant | a servile self-seeking flatterer |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| communal | of or relating to one or more communes |
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| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
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