GRE Word List

ENDEARMENT

a word or an act (such as a caress) expressing affection

The meaning of the word endearment is a word or an act (such as a caress) expressing affection.

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rompone that romps
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finickyextremely or excessively particular, exacting, or meticulous in taste or standards
libela written statement in which a plaintiff in certain courts sets forth the cause of action or the relief sought
chimericalexisting only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary
etymologythe 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
extantcurrently or actually existing
insurrectionan act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government
theocracygovernment of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided
relegateto send into exile : banish