GRE Word List
VENAL
capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable
The meaning of the word venal is capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| venerable | calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| heed | to pay attention |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| morbid | of, relating to, or characteristic of disease |
| turbulence | the quality or state of being turbulent: such as |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |