GRE Word List

TUMID

marked by swelling : swollen

The meaning of the word tumid is marked by swelling : swollen.

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WordMeaning
lividdiscolored by bruising : black-and-blue
festerto generate pus
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
egregiousconspicuous
militantengaged in warfare or combat : fighting
eonan immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age
inanimatenot animate:
consensusgeneral agreement : unanimity
detainto hold or keep in or as if in custody
episodicmade up of separate especially loosely connected episodes