GRE Word List
PARRY
to ward off a weapon or blow
The meaning of the word parry is to ward off a weapon or blow.
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infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |
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clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
fulcrum | prop |
secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
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