GRE Word List
FROCK
an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit
The meaning of the word frock is an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit.
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| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
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| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| derelict | abandoned especially by the owner or occupant |
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| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| malady | a disease or disorder of the animal body |
| 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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