GRE Word List
SCRAPS
fragments of discarded or leftover food
The meaning of the word scraps is fragments of discarded or leftover food.
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| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| clavicle | a bone of the shoulder girdle typically serving to link the scapula and sternum |
| 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 |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| opulence | wealth |
| prolixity | unduly prolonged or drawn out : too long |
| dissent | to withhold assent or approval |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
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