GRE Word List
INCREMENT
the amount or degree by which something changes
The meaning of the word increment is the amount or degree by which something changes.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| serenity | the quality or state of being serene |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
| 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 |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |