GRE Word List
URGENT
calling for immediate attention : pressing
The meaning of the word urgent is calling for immediate attention : pressing.
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| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| bifurcated | divided into two branches or parts |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| equilibrium | a state of intellectual or emotional balance : poise |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |