GRE Word List
LINGUISTIC
of or relating to language or linguistics
The meaning of the word linguistic is of or relating to language or linguistics.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incidental | being likely to ensue as a chance or minor consequence |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |
| septic | of, relating to, or causing putrefaction |
| vibrant | pulsating with life, vigor, or activity |
| stymie | to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| vigil | the act of keeping awake at times when sleep is customary |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |