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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threshto separate seed from (a harvested plant) mechanically
lucidsuffused with light : luminous
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stratuma bed or layer artificially made
behooveto be necessary, proper, or advantageous for
fringean ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band
proscribeto publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state
vigilantea member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)
ciliatedpossessing cilia