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 |
|---|---|
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| eddy | a current of water or air running contrary to the main current |
| ramification | branch |
| limbo | an abode of souls that are according to Roman Catholic theology barred from heaven because of not having received Christian baptism |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |