GRE Word List
STOIC
a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c.
The meaning of the word stoic is a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c..
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| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
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| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| connubial | of or relating to the married state : conjugal |
| retrench | cut down |
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