GRE Word List
RETRENCH
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| fallow | of a light yellowish-brown color |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| blush | outward appearance : view |
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
| paleontology | a science dealing with the life of past geologic periods as known from fossil remains |
| lull | to cause to sleep or rest : soothe |