GRE Word List
OSSIFY
to change into bone
The meaning of the word ossify is to change into bone.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |