GRE Word List
VULTURE
any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion
The meaning of the word vulture is any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| calorific | caloric |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
| drab | slattern |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |