GRE Word List
PESTILENTIAL
causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly
The meaning of the word pestilential is causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly.
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| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| gazette | newspaper |
| demented | mad |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
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