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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| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
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| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
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