GRE Word List
QUARRY
game
The meaning of the word quarry is game.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| comprise | to be made up of |
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |