GRE Word List
PHILISTINE
a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia
The meaning of the word philistine is a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| ecliptic | of or relating to the ecliptic or an eclipse |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| embroider | to ornament with needlework |
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |