GRE Word List
ETYMOLOGY
the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
The meaning of the word etymology is the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| contagion | a contagious disease |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| acclaim | applaud |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| 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 |