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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WordMeaning
peonany of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as
excisean internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity
mirewet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh)
edicta proclamation having the force of law
feasiblecapable of being done or carried out
forestallto exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures
chaplaina clergyman in charge of a chapel
embezzlementto appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
kineticof or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith
precludeto make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance