GRE Word List
INCEPTION
an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement
The meaning of the word inception is an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| 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 |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |
| elaborate | planned or carried out with great care |