GRE Word List
DISSIDENT
disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief
The meaning of the word dissident is disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| damn | to condemn to a punishment or fate |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| ultimatum | a final proposition, condition, or demand |
| generate | to bring into existence: such as |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| warrant | sanction |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| 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 |