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 |
|---|---|
| agape | wide open : gaping |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| institution | an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |