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 |
|---|---|
| serenity | the quality or state of being serene |
| rift | fissure |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| shack | hut |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |