GRE Word List
PIEBALD
composed of incongruous parts
The meaning of the word piebald is composed of incongruous parts.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| 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 |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| euphoria | a feeling of well-being or elation |