GRE Word List
HOMELY
suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home
The meaning of the word homely is suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home.
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| 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 |
| inconsistency | an instance of being inconsistent |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| redolent | exuding fragrance : aromatic |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| prodigy | a highly talented child or youth |