GRE Word List

SENTINEL

sentry

The meaning of the word sentinel is sentry.

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empathythe action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
devoidbeing without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment
indictto charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law
libidoinstinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity
falterto walk unsteadily : stumble
swellto expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit
impedeto interfere with or slow the progress of
maleficentworking or productive of harm or evil : baleful
licentiouslacking legal or moral restraints
lanceta sharp-pointed and commonly 2-edged surgical instrument used to make small incisions