GRE Word List
RECUMBENT
suggestive of repose : leaning
The meaning of the word recumbent is suggestive of repose : leaning.
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| conflagration | fire |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
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| extant | currently or actually existing |