GRE Word List
COUNTENANCE
look
The meaning of the word countenance is look.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| 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 |
| academic | of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| obese | having excessive body fat |
| amphitheater | an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| ensconce | shelter |