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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| mammal | any 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 |
| crestfallen | having a drooping crest or hanging head |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |