GRE Word List
PLUMB
a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction
The meaning of the word plumb is a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction.
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emollient | making soft or supple |
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quizzical | comically quaint |
disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
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