GRE Word List
MATRIX
something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form
The meaning of the word matrix is something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| necromancy | conjuration (see conjure |
| 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 |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |
| coquette | a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain the attention and admiration of men |