GRE Word List
BELLICOSE
favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars
The meaning of the word bellicose is favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| vying | contending; to strive for superiority |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| obnoxious | odiously or disgustingly objectionable : highly offensive |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| sophist | philosopher |
| 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 |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |