GRE Word List
SERE
being dried and withered
The meaning of the word sere is being dried and withered.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| polity | political organization |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
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| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| canny | clever |
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