GRE Word List
RATION
a food allowance for one day
The meaning of the word ration is a food allowance for one day.
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|---|---|
| pose | to set forth or offer for attention or consideration |
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| epaulet | something that ornaments or protects the shoulder: such as |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| 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 |
| parish | the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor |
| precis | a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts |