GRE Word List
OSTENSIBLE
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nectar | the drink of the Greek and Roman gods |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| elysian | of or relating to Elysium |