GRE Word List
ETHNIC
of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background
The meaning of the word ethnic is of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| quorum | a select group |
| trajectory | the curve that a body (such as a planet or comet in its orbit or a rocket) describes in space |
| scuffle | to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |