GRE Word List
DEBUT
a first appearance
The meaning of the word debut is a first appearance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| gerontology | the comprehensive multidisciplinary study of aging and older adults compare geriatrics |
| sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| distend | extend |
| cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| cant | the expression or repetition of conventional or trite opinions or sentiments |
| 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 |