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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| amphitheater | an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles |
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| etymology | the 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 |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| rustic | of, relating to, or suitable for the country : rural |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| concise | marked by brevity of expression or statement : free from all elaboration and superfluous detail |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |