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.

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WordMeaning
hazarda source of danger
blotchto mark or mar with blotches
multifarioushaving or occurring in great variety : diverse
kneadto work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands
ponderousof very great weight
blanchto take the color out of
gratuitousnot called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted
frolicsomefull of gaiety : playful
dialecticalof, relating to, or in accordance with dialectic
runicany of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries