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 |
|---|---|
| condign | deserved |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| 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 |
| mace | an aromatic spice consisting of the dried external fibrous covering of a nutmeg |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
| flutter | to flap the wings rapidly |