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 |
|---|---|
| adventitious | coming from another source and not inherent or innate |
| alleviate | relieve |
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| nutrient | furnishing nourishment |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| criteria | a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |