GRE Word List
PEDESTAL
the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration
The meaning of the word pedestal is the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration.
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| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| oculist | ophthalmologist |
| 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 |
| satiate | filled to satiety |
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| homily | a usually short sermon |