GRE Word List
BANE
a source of harm or ruin : curse
The meaning of the word bane is a source of harm or ruin : curse.
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| disquisition | a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| brave | having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty : having or showing courage |
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| indulge | to yield to the desire of : humor |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| 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 |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |