GRE Word List
STRATUM
a bed or layer artificially made
The meaning of the word stratum is a bed or layer artificially made.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| ample | generous or more than adequate in size, scope, or capacity |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| obscure | dark |
| grotto | cave |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| monogram | a sign of identity usually formed of the combined initials of a name |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |