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 |
|---|---|
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| maroon | a dark red |
| patronize | to act as patron of : provide aid or support for |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| predetermine | foreordain |