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 |
|---|---|
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| rustic | of, relating to, or suitable for the country : rural |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| atypical | not typical : irregular |
| 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 |