GRE Word List

TREMOR

a trembling or shaking usually from physical weakness, emotional stress, or disease

The meaning of the word tremor is a trembling or shaking usually from physical weakness, emotional stress, or disease.

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WordMeaning
parasitean organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host
prepossessingcreating prejudice
rotethe use of memory usually with little intelligence
vegetateto lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind
charydiscreetly cautious: such as
anticlimaxthe usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea
adjunctsomething joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it
vertebrateany of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life
debilitateto impair the strength of : enfeeble
quellto thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity