GRE Word List
SUBSTANTIVE
having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned
The meaning of the word substantive is having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| bicker | petulant quarreling : altercation |
| concave | hollowed or rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| unfrock | defrock |
| vying | contending; to strive for superiority |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| aspire | to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal |