GRE Word List
ETHOS
the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution
The meaning of the word ethos is the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| cursive | running |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| dynamo | generator |