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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|---|---|
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
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| dynamic | marked by usually continuous and productive activity or change |
| impenitent | not penitent |
| bohemian | a native or inhabitant of Bohemia |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
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