GRE Word List
STRICTURE
an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage
The meaning of the word stricture is an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| seedy | containing or full of seeds |
| defrock | to deprive of the right to exercise the functions of office |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| faction | a party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking : clique |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| defiance | the act or an instance of defying : challenge |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |