GRE Word List
MALCONTENT
a discontented person:
The meaning of the word malcontent is a discontented person:.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| misdemeanor | a crime less serious than a felony (see felony |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| brevity | shortness of duration |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |