GRE Word List
VESTIGE
a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost
The meaning of the word vestige is a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |