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 |
|---|---|
| manifestation | the act, process, or an instance of manifesting |
| lofty | elevated in character and spirit : noble |
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
