GRE Word List

PRUNE

a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation

The meaning of the word prune is a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation.

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vertebrateany of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life
discriminatingmaking a distinction : distinguishing
dapperneat and trim in appearance
subsideto sink or fall to the bottom : settle
complicityassociation or participation in or as if in a wrongful act
frigidintensely cold
maritalof or relating to marriage or the married state
conjugalof or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial
sibyllineany of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy)
bilkto block the free development of : frustrate