GRE Word List
SWAMP
a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water
The meaning of the word swamp is a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| domicile | a dwelling place : place of residence : home |
| dominate | rule |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
| sluggish | averse to activity or exertion : indolent |