GRE Word List
WEAN
to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing
The meaning of the word wean is to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing.
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cleave | to adhere firmly and closely or loyally and unwaveringly |
grisly | inspiring horror or intense fear |
oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
disperse | to cause to break up (see break up |
bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
volley | the flight of the ball (as in volleyball or tennis) or its course before striking the ground |
concatenate | linked together |
canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |