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 |
|---|---|
| incrustation | a crust or hard coating |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| demise | death |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| serrated | notched or toothed on the edge |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| rankle | to cause anger, irritation, or deep bitterness |