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 |
|---|---|
| spatial | relating to, occupying, or having the character of space |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |