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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outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
scintilla | spark |
atypical | not typical : irregular |
compulsory | mandatory |
nullify | to make null (see null |