GRE Word List
OSSIFY
to change into bone
The meaning of the word ossify is to change into bone.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |
| shove | to push along |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| regatta | a rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races |
| estimable | capable of being estimated |
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |