GRE Word List
DISCOUNT
a reduction made from the gross (see gross
The meaning of the word discount is a reduction made from the gross (see gross.
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|---|---|
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
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| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| suffragist | one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |