GRE Word List
DERIVATION
the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix)
The meaning of the word derivation is the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| imperceptible | not perceptible by a sense or by the mind : extremely slight, gradual, or subtle |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| resolve | to deal with successfully : clear up |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| aperture | an opening or open space : hole |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |