GRE Word List
OSSIFY
change or harden into bone; become hard and unchanging in one's ideas
The meaning of the word ossify is change or harden into bone; become hard and unchanging in one's ideas.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| multilingual | having many languages; fluent in several languages |
| fancied | imagined; unreal |
| striated | marked with parallel bands; striped; grooved; Ex. striated rocks; V. striate; N. stria: thin groove or line |
| conscript | draftee; person forced into military service; V. |
| champion | support militantly; fight for; N: person who fights for or supports strongly (a principle, movement, person, etc.) |
| practicable | feasible |
| litany | supplicatory prayer; prayer in which the priest calls out and the people replies in the same words |
| dereliction | neglect of duty; abandonment |
| miscellany | mixture of writings on various subjects; collection of various items |
| petty | trivial; unimportant; very small; small-minded; petty-minded |
