GRE Word List
POSTMORTEM
done, occurring, or collected after death
The meaning of the word postmortem is done, occurring, or collected after death.
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|---|---|
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| breach | infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |