GRE Word List
VENERABLE
calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments
The meaning of the word venerable is calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| boor | peasant |
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| sour | being, inducing, or marked by the one of the five basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids and is characteristic of lemon juice |
| primogeniture | the state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents |
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |