GRE Word List
MEDITATION
a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation
The meaning of the word meditation is a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| righteous | acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| 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 |
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |
| contest | strive |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |