GRE Word List
PRIMAL
original
The meaning of the word primal is original.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| pulsate | to throb or move rhythmically : vibrate |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| flighty | swift |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |