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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| dissent | to withhold assent or approval |
| fester | to generate pus |
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| venison | the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer |