GRE Word List
VENISON
the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer
The meaning of the word venison is the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| inclusive | broad in orientation or scope |
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |