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 |
|---|---|
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| generic | relating to or characteristic of a whole group or class : general |
| fleece | the coat of wool covering a wool-bearing animal (such as a sheep) |
| blase | apathetic to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment : world-weary |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| warranted | sanction |