GRE Word List
INTIMATE
marked by a warm friendship developing through long association
The meaning of the word intimate is marked by a warm friendship developing through long association.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expatiate | to move about freely or at will : wander |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| 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 |
| gerontology | the comprehensive multidisciplinary study of aging and older adults compare geriatrics |
| nuance | a subtle distinction or variation |
| brandish | to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |