GRE Word List
EGRESS
a place or means of going out : exit
The meaning of the word egress is a place or means of going out : exit.
Random words
| 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 |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |