GRE Word List
FIAT
an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree
The meaning of the word fiat is an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree.
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| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| adjoin | to add or attach by joining |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
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| 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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