GRE Word List
PESTLE
a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration
The meaning of the word pestle is a usually club-shaped implement for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar see mortar illustration.
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| 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 |
| bolt | a lightning stroke |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| symmetry | balanced proportions |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |