GRE Word List
GLARE
to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light
The meaning of the word glare is to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light.
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|---|---|
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| infringe | to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another |
| subordinate | placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
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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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