GRE Word List

PRIVY

private

The meaning of the word privy is private.

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WordMeaning
shimmerto shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer
singularof or relating to a separate person or thing : individual
bartererto trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services
forgea furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy
toadyone who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant
figmentsomething made up or contrived
rectifyto set right : remedy
opprobriumsomething that brings disgrace
flushto fly away suddenly
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans