GRE Word List
CONSTRUE
to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part)
The meaning of the word construe is to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ramification | branch |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| fritter | a small mass of fried or sautéed batter often containing fruit or meat |
| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| 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 |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| convivial | relating to, occupied with, or fond of feasting, drinking, and good company |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |