GRE Word List
PALLET
a straw-filled tick or mattress
The meaning of the word pallet is a straw-filled tick or mattress.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| malefactor | one who commits an offense against the law |
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |