GRE Word List
VICTUALS
food usable by people
The meaning of the word victuals is food usable by people.
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|---|---|
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| usury | the lending of money with an interest charge for its use |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |