GRE Word List
SUBSEQUENT
following in time, order, or place
The meaning of the word subsequent is following in time, order, or place.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| malefactor | one who commits an offense against the law |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| curfew | the sounding of a bell at evening |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| mime | an ancient dramatic entertainment representing scenes from life usually in a ridiculous manner |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |