GRE Word List
OSSIFY
to change into bone
The meaning of the word ossify is to change into bone.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| orifice | an opening (such as a vent, mouth, or hole) through which something may pass |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |