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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| kismet | fate |
| junta | a council or committee for political or governmental purposes |
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| relevant | having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand |