GRE Word List

EXERTION

the act or an instance of exerting

The meaning of the word exertion is the act or an instance of exerting.

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WordMeaning
profoundhaving intellectual depth and insight
providencedivine guidance or care
fancifulmarked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience
etymologythe 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
blasphemythe act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God
taintto contaminate morally : corrupt
chauvinistan attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex
hermitagethe habitation of a hermit
patoisa dialect other than the standard or literary dialect
speechlessunable to speak : dumb