GRE Word List
POSTHUMOUS
born after the death of the father
The meaning of the word posthumous is born after the death of the father.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| headfirst | with the head foremost |
| clime | climate |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| 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 |
| laud | praise |