GRE Word List
SEDENTARY
not migratory : settled
The meaning of the word sedentary is not migratory : settled.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| hide | to put out of sight : secrete |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| 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 |