GRE Word List
SEDENTARY
not migratory : settled
The meaning of the word sedentary is not migratory : settled.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| peripatetic | a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |