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 |
|---|---|
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| chivalrous | valiant |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| muggy | being warm, damp, and close |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| blues | low spirits : melancholy |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |