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 |
|---|---|
| arid | excessively dry |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| countenance | look |
| suborn | to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| foment | to promote the growth or development of : rouse |