GRE Word List
SUTURE
a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body
The meaning of the word suture is a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
| billow | wave |
| ascribe | to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| lampoon | satire |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |
| sinewy | full of sinews: such as |