GRE Word List
DEBAUCH
to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality
The meaning of the word debauch is to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality.
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|---|---|
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| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
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| quisling | traitor |
| 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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| funereal | of or relating to a funeral |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
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