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 |
|---|---|
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| enduring | lasting |
| exhume | disinter |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| wrest | to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements |
| spry | able to move quickly, easily, and lightly : nimble |