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 |
|---|---|
| venison | the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer |
| 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 |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| nimble | quick and light in motion : agile |
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| olfactory | of or relating to the sense of smell |
| perpetual | continuing forever : everlasting |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |