GRE Word List
LEXICOGRAPHER
an author or editor of a dictionary
The meaning of the word lexicographer is an author or editor of a dictionary.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| requisition | the act of formally requiring or calling upon someone to perform an action |
| graduated | marked with divisions indicating degrees or units of measurement |
| boor | peasant |
| vigilant | alertly watchful especially to avoid danger |
| mortician | undertaker |
| nimble | quick and light in motion : agile |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| 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 |