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 |
|---|---|
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| nubile | of marriageable condition or age |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
| befuddle | to muddle or stupefy with or as if with drink |
| 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 |
| ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |