GRE Word List
VICTUALS
food usable by people
The meaning of the word victuals is food usable by people.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| periphery | the perimeter of a circle or other closed curve |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| taunt | to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at |
| ruddy | having a healthy reddish color |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |