GRE Word List
RAVENOUS
rapacious
The meaning of the word ravenous is rapacious.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
| masticate | to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |