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 |
|---|---|
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| menagerie | a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| inebriate | one who is drunk |
| procurement | the act or process of procuring |
| osseous | bony |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| disparity | a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |