GRE Word List

VICTUALS

food usable by people

The meaning of the word victuals is food usable by people.

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WordMeaning
defrayto provide for the payment of : pay
laconicusing or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious
vigilantea member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)
practicablecapable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible
consequentialof the nature of a secondary result : indirect
enjointo direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition
inebriateone who is drunk
phariseea member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law
ecosystemthe complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit
adventitiouscoming from another source and not inherent or innate