GRE Word List
ENCROACHMENT
to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another
The meaning of the word encroachment is to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another.
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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 |
| kismet | fate |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| olfactory | of or relating to the sense of smell |