GRE Word List
ECLECTIC
composed of elements drawn from various sources
The meaning of the word eclectic is composed of elements drawn from various sources.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |