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 |
|---|---|
| catholic | roman catholic |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| censor | a person who supervises conduct and morals: such as |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |