GRE Word List
SEQUESTER
to set apart : segregate
The meaning of the word sequester is to set apart : segregate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| centurion | an officer commanding a Roman century |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| abnegation | denial |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| portly | dignified |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |