GRE Word List
DERIVATIVE
a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation
The meaning of the word derivative is a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| servitude | a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life |
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| ichthyology | a branch of zoology that deals with fishes |
| espouse | marry |
| render | to melt down |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| postulate | demand |
| influx | a coming in |