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 |
|---|---|
| prophetic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
| mortician | undertaker |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |