GRE Word List
COMMONWEALTH
a nation, state, or other political unit: such as
The meaning of the word commonwealth is a nation, state, or other political unit: such as.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| wrest | to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements |
| molt | to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically |
| pertinacious | adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| 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 |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| dissertation | an extended usually written treatment of a subject |