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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| totter | to move unsteadily : stagger |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |