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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festerto generate pus
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antiqueexisting since or belonging to earlier times : ancient
stipenda fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses
reverendworthy of reverence : revered
respitea period of temporary delay
laboriousinvolving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous
snivelto run at the nose
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
progenitoran ancestor in the direct line : forefather