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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| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| parry | to ward off a weapon or blow |
| guileless | innocent |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| ingenious | having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| ineffectual | not producing the proper or intended effect : futile |
| brandish | to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly |