GRE Word List
SYLVAN
one that frequents groves or woods
The meaning of the word sylvan is one that frequents groves or woods.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| combustible | capable of combustion |
| cadaver | a dead body |
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| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| savant | a person of learning |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| modish | fashionable |
| disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |