GRE Word List
MANEUVER
a military or naval movement
The meaning of the word maneuver is a military or naval movement.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
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| sprout | to grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout |
| 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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