GRE Word List
PALPABLE
capable of being touched or felt : tangible
The meaning of the word palpable is capable of being touched or felt : tangible.
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| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
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| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| schism | division |
| exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
| paradigm | example |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
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| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |