GRE Word List
WITHDRAWN
removed from immediate contact or easy approach : isolated
The meaning of the word withdrawn is removed from immediate contact or easy approach : isolated.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| brackish | somewhat salty |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| haphazard | marked by lack of plan, order, or direction |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |