GRE Word List
EXEMPLIFY
to show or illustrate by example
The meaning of the word exemplify is to show or illustrate by example.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| 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 |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |