GRE Word List
CREDO
a guiding belief or principle : creed
The meaning of the word credo is a guiding belief or principle : creed.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| juncture | a point of time |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| 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 |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |