GRE Word List
INQUISITOR
one who inquires or makes inquisition
The meaning of the word inquisitor is one who inquires or makes inquisition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| quarry | game |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| 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 |
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| dolorous | causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| studious | assiduous in the pursuit of learning |