GRE Word List
DIDACTIC
designed or intended to teach
The meaning of the word didactic is designed or intended to teach.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| asunder | into parts |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| sow | an adult female swine |
| portend | to give an omen or anticipatory sign of |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |