GRE Word List
SOW
an adult female swine
The meaning of the word sow is an adult female swine.
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| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
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| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| apothegm | a short, pithy, and instructive saying or formulation : aphorism |
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| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |