GRE Word List
YIELD
to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation
The meaning of the word yield is to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation.
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| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| 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 |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |