GRE Word List
PIGMENT
a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials
The meaning of the word pigment is a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| 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 |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |