GRE Word List
OSTENSIBLE
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| multifarious | having or occurring in great variety : diverse |
| portend | to give an omen or anticipatory sign of |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| feline | of, relating to, or affecting cats or the cat family |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| masquerade | a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic costumes |