GRE Word List
FACTIOUS
of or relating to faction: such as
The meaning of the word factious is of or relating to faction: such as.
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|---|---|
| coeval | of the same or equal age, antiquity, or duration |
| mendicant | beggar |
| 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 |
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| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| anthem | a song or hymn of praise or gladness |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |