GRE Word List

IDEOLOGY

a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture

The meaning of the word ideology is a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture.

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thrashto beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog
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etymologythe 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
weatherthe state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness
compunctionanxiety arising from awareness of guilt
complicityassociation or participation in or as if in a wrongful act
panegyrica eulogistic oration or writing
exclaimto cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion
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