GRE Word List
OSTENSIBLE
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |
| minion | a servile dependent, follower, or underling |
| 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 |
| aberrant | deviating from the usual or natural type : atypical |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| stench | stink |
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| inherent | involved in the constitution or essential character of something : belonging by nature or habit : intrinsic |