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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amphitheateran oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles
dummya person who is incapable of speaking
etymologythe 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
commemorateto call to remembrance
distraitapprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted
morguea place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy
rusticof, relating to, or suitable for the country : rural
supplecompliant often to the point of obsequiousness
concisemarked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail
bruntthe principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack)