GRE Word List
GRAPPLE
the act or an instance of grappling
The meaning of the word grapple is the act or an instance of grappling.
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| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
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| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| mortician | undertaker |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| 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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| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
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