GRE Word List
ROTE
the use of memory usually with little intelligence
The meaning of the word rote is the use of memory usually with little intelligence.
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| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
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| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| comestible | edible |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| appease | pacify |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
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