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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| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
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| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| miscellaneous | consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
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| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
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| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |