GRE Word List
AUDIT
a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation
The meaning of the word audit is a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation.
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| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff |
| cursive | running |
| 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 |
| spectral | of, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly |
| drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
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