GRE Word List
POSTURE
the position or bearing of the body whether characteristic or assumed for a special purpose
The meaning of the word posture is the position or bearing of the body whether characteristic or assumed for a special purpose.
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resolution | the act or process of resolving: such as |
duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
swear | to utter or take solemnly (an oath) |
confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
bolt | a lightning stroke |
stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
embargo | an order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports |
supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |