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 |
|---|---|
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| unwarranted | lacking adequate or official support : not warranted : unjustified |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| warrant | sanction |