GRE Word List
ABUT
to border on : to touch along an edge
The meaning of the word abut is to border on : to touch along an edge.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| cathartic | of, relating to, or producing catharsis |
| buoyant | having buoyancy |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| waft | to move or go lightly on or as if on a buoyant medium |