GRE GRE Word by meaning 374

n. drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check

n. a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; language?

v. diminish; decrease

v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; smirch; asperse; denigrate; calumniate; smear; besmirch

adj. slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)

n. a miserly person

n. a person who is markedly small; nanus

adj. corpse-like; ghastly

adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; granitic; obdurate; stony

n. the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium