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 |
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| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
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| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| meretricious | of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |