GRE Word List
CONTEXT
the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning
The meaning of the word context is the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| robust | having or exhibiting strength or vigorous health |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
| mesmerize | to subject to mesmerism |