GRE Word List
KISMET
fate
The meaning of the word kismet is fate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collaborate | to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor |
| chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |
| novelty | something new or unusual |
| convoluted | having convolutions |
| vestige | a trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) vanished or lost |
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| admonish | to indicate duties or obligations to |
| relish | characteristic flavor |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| 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 |