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 |
|---|---|
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| fauna | animal life |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| ruddy | having a healthy reddish color |