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 |
|---|---|
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| dictum | a noteworthy statement: such as |
| prevalent | generally or widely accepted, practiced, or favored : widespread |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |