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 |
|---|---|
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| plight | to put or give in pledge : engage |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| epicurean | of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |