GRE Word List
QUEER
differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd
The meaning of the word queer is differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd.
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| regimen | a systematic plan (as of diet, therapy, or medication) especially when designed to improve and maintain the health of a patient |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |
| condign | deserved |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |