GRE Word List
QUADRUPED
an animal having four feet
The meaning of the word quadruped is an animal having four feet.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| skulk | to move in a stealthy or furtive manner |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |