GRE Word List
LAMENT
to mourn aloud : wail
The meaning of the word lament is to mourn aloud : wail.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |
| exhilarating | causing strong feelings of happy excitement and elation : thrilling |
| tertiary | of third rank, importance, or value |
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| nimble | quick and light in motion : agile |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |