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 |
|---|---|
| fete | festival |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| astigmatism | a defect of an optical system (such as a lens) causing rays from a point to fail to meet in a focal point resulting in a blurred and imperfect image |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |