GRE Word List

YORE

time past and especially long past

The meaning of the word yore is time past and especially long past.

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WordMeaning
conventionalformed by agreement or compact
languishto be or become feeble, weak, or enervated
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unearthlynot earthly: such as
inhibitto prohibit from doing something
parlancespeech
maritimeof, relating to, or bordering on the sea
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tractablecapable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile
modean arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval