GRE Word List
DISQUISITION
a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse
The meaning of the word disquisition is a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| 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 |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| indomitable | incapable of being subdued : unconquerable |
| trappings | outward signs |
| testator | a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |