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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brink | edge |
| resumption | an act or instance of resuming : recommencement |
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
| sublimate | sublime |
| asinine | extremely or utterly foolish or silly |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| plutocracy | government by the wealthy |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |