GRE Word List
PAPYRUS
a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley
The meaning of the word papyrus is a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley.
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| dire | exciting horror |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
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| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| 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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