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 |
|---|---|
| minuscule | very small |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| glutinous | having the quality of glue : gummy |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| quench | put out |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |