GRE Word List
ALTRUISTIC
relating to or given to altruism:
The meaning of the word altruistic is relating to or given to altruism:.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wastrel | vagabond |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| anarchist | a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power |
| 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 |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| mendicant | beggar |
| retribution | recompense |
| effete | no longer fertile |