GRE Word List
TUREEN
a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served
The meaning of the word tureen is a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| etymology | the 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 |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| monarchy | undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| remonstrate | to present and urge reasons in opposition : expostulate |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| forthcoming | being about to appear or to be produced or made available |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |