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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|---|---|
| enthrall | to hold spellbound : charm |
| discerning | showing insight and understanding : discriminating |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| brink | edge |
| solicitous | manifesting or expressing solicitude |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| fabricate | invent |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |