GRE Word List
CREDULITY
readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence
The meaning of the word credulity is readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence.
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| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| fell | skin |
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| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
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| 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 |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |