GRE Word List

YEOMAN

an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household

The meaning of the word yeoman is an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household.

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duressforcible restraint or restriction
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smeara viscous or sticky substance
crabbedmarked by a forbidding moroseness
mundaneof, relating to, or characteristic of the world
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trickleto issue or fall in drops
regenta person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign