GRE Word List

SEDENTARY

not migratory : settled

The meaning of the word sedentary is not migratory : settled.

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quellto thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity
careera profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling
conglomerationthe act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated
plastera medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance
jocundmarked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness
marsupialany of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young
tentativenot fully worked out or developed
pulsethe regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart
genusa class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic
transposeto change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of