GRE Word List
BANDY
to discuss lightly or banteringly
The meaning of the word bandy is to discuss lightly or banteringly.
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|---|---|
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| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
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| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| dislodge | to drive from a position of hiding, defense, or advantage |
| 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 |