GRE Word List

VITAL

of the utmost importance

The meaning of the word vital is of the utmost importance.

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mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
outmodednot being in style
refractiondeflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different
ratiocinationthe process of exact thinking : reasoning
decapitateto cut off the head of : behead
charany of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots
rankleto cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness
fervorintensity of feeling or expression
finalethe close or termination of something: such as
subterfugedeception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade