GRE Word List
FRANTIC
emotionally out of control
The meaning of the word frantic is emotionally out of control.
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| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
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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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