GRE Word List
OSSIFY
to change into bone
The meaning of the word ossify is to change into bone.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |