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 |
|---|---|
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| outmoded | not being in style |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| complement | something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect |
| cue | the letter q |
| elucidate | to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |