GRE Word List
SEDENTARY
not migratory : settled
The meaning of the word sedentary is not migratory : settled.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| fluency | the quality or state of being fluent |
| dazzle | to lose clear vision especially from looking at bright light |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| executor | one who executes something |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| toss | to throw with a quick, light, or careless motion or with a sudden jerk |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |