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 |
|---|---|
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |