GRE Word List
HAZARD
a source of danger
The meaning of the word hazard is a source of danger.
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|---|---|
| exquisite | marked by flawless craftsmanship or by beautiful, ingenious, delicate, or elaborate execution |
| mutability | prone to change : inconstant |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| 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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| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
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| doze | to sleep lightly |