GRE Word List
SEDENTARY
not migratory : settled
The meaning of the word sedentary is not migratory : settled.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| marsupial | any 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 |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| transpose | to change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of |