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 |
|---|---|
| toll | a tax or fee paid for some liberty or privilege (as of passing over a highway or bridge) |
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| recital | a detailed account : enumeration |
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |