GRE Word List

PUGILIST

fighter

The meaning of the word pugilist is fighter.

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comeuppancea deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts
drudgeto do hard, menial, or monotonous work
caulkto stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe)
stoica member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c.
incidencerate of occurrence or influence
galleona heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish
penancean act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification
incarcerateto put in prison
ravelto become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray
bicameralhaving, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber