GRE Word List
CRYPTIC
secret
The meaning of the word cryptic is secret.
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| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
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| demise | death |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| 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 |
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