GRE Word List
INTERPOLATE
to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter
The meaning of the word interpolate is to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
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| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| imperil | to bring into peril : endanger |
| embark | to go on board a vehicle for transportation |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| 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 |
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| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |