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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
| 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 |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| mirth | gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter |
| blunt | having an edge or point that is not sharp |
| dys- | abnormal |
| amiable | friendly, sociable, and congenial |
| gracious | marked by kindness and courtesy |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| extol | to praise highly : glorify |