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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| etymology | the 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 |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| flaccid | not firm or stiff |
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| septic | of, relating to, or causing putrefaction |
| portly | dignified |