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 |
|---|---|
| memoir | an official note or report : memorandum |
| mendicant | beggar |
| hindrance | the state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered |
| lethargic | of, relating to, or characterized by laziness or lack of energy : feeling or affected by lethargy : sluggish |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| 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 |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| mealymouthed | not plain and straightforward : devious |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |