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 |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| regime | regimen |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| transpose | to change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| simian | of, relating to, or resembling monkeys or apes |