GRE Word List
AMITY
friendship
The meaning of the word amity is friendship.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |
| bevy | a large group or collection |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| politic | political |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| adherent | one who adheres to something: such as |
| 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 |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |