GRE Word List
COMMENSURATE
corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate
The meaning of the word commensurate is corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| 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 |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| rotunda | a round building |
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| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
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