GRE Word List
PRIM
to give a prim or demure expression to
The meaning of the word prim is to give a prim or demure expression to.
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| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
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| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
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| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |