GRE Word List
HISTORICAL
of, relating to, or having the character of history
The meaning of the word historical is of, relating to, or having the character of history.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hazard | a source of danger |
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| mandate | an authoritative command |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| simian | of, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |