GRE Word List
REBUFF
to reject or criticize sharply : snub
The meaning of the word rebuff is to reject or criticize sharply : snub.
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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 |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| obstetrician | a physician specializing in obstetrics |
| altercation | a noisy, heated, angry dispute |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| prattle | prate |