GRE Word List
SHEAF
a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together
The meaning of the word sheaf is a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| osseous | bony |
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| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
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| discount | a reduction made from the gross (see gross |
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| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |