GRE Word List
LOTTERY
a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance
The meaning of the word lottery is a drawing of lots in which prizes are distributed to the winners among persons buying a chance.
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| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| 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 |
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