GRE Word List
GNOME
maxim
The meaning of the word gnome is maxim.
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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 |
| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
| exuberance | the quality or state of being exuberant |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| utopia | a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| fawning | seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery |
| sophist | philosopher |
| knave | a tricky deceitful fellow |
| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |