GRE Word List
LONGEVITY
a long duration of individual life
The meaning of the word longevity is a long duration of individual life.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| ashen | of, relating to, or made from ash wood |
| homely | suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| eloquence | discourse marked by force and persuasiveness |
| alias | otherwise called : otherwise known as |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| 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 |