GRE Word List
QUIETUDE
a quiet state : repose
The meaning of the word quietude is a quiet state : repose.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vertebrate | any 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 |
| serrated | notched or toothed on the edge |
| expertise | the skill of an expert |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| giddy | dizzy |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| endue | provide |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |