GRE Word List
OSSIFY
to change into bone
The meaning of the word ossify is to change into bone.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| lavish | expending or bestowing profusely : prodigal |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| mendicant | beggar |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| historical | of, relating to, or having the character of history |