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 |
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| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| glitter | to shine by reflection with many small flashes of brilliant light : sparkle |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |
| impinge | encroach |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |