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 |
|---|---|
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| hortatory | hortative |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |