GRE Word List
DISSERTATION
an extended usually written treatment of a subject
The meaning of the word dissertation is an extended usually written treatment of a subject.
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| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
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| comeback | a sharp or witty reply : retort |
| 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 |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| bane | a source of harm or ruin : curse |
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| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |