GRE Word List
URSINE
of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae)
The meaning of the word ursine is of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae).
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| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
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| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
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