GRE Word List
ENMITY
positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will
The meaning of the word enmity is positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will.
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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 |
| pliant | pliable |
| epoch | an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| sartorial | of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes |
| agrarian | of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure |
| encompass | include |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |
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| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |