GRE Word List
CIVIL
of or relating to citizens
The meaning of the word civil is of or relating to citizens.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| onus | burden |
| delve | excavate |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| offensive | making attack : aggressive |
| doze | to sleep lightly |
| molten | fused or liquefied by heat : melted |
| platonic | of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or Platonism |
| 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 |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| convert | to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another |