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 |
|---|---|
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| glacial | suggestive of ice: such as |
| schematic | of or relating to a scheme or schema |
| fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| invalid | not valid: |
| spartan | a native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta |