GRE Word List
SEPULCHER
a place of burial : tomb
The meaning of the word sepulcher is a place of burial : tomb.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| luxuriate | to grow profusely : thrive |
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