GRE Word List
SEDENTARY
not migratory : settled
The meaning of the word sedentary is not migratory : settled.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| susceptible | capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| zenith | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer see azimuth illustration |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |