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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| providence | divine guidance or care |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| 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 |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |