GRE Word List
TORPOR
a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility
The meaning of the word torpor is a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
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| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |