GRE Word List
ALLUDE
to make indirect reference
The meaning of the word allude is to make indirect reference.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| unkempt | not combed |
| parish | the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| 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 |
| 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 |