GRE Word List
GERRYMANDER
the act or method of gerrymandering
The meaning of the word gerrymander is the act or method of gerrymandering.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |