GRE Word List
QUIVER
a case for carrying or holding arrows
The meaning of the word quiver is a case for carrying or holding arrows.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| mealymouthed | not plain and straightforward : devious |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| medium | something in a middle position |
| practical | of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal |