GRE Word List
PERIPHERY
the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve
The meaning of the word periphery is the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| peon | any of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| chaplain | a clergyman in charge of a chapel |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |