GRE Word List
METEORIC
of or relating to a meteor
The meaning of the word meteoric is of or relating to a meteor.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pedagogy | the art, science, or profession of teaching |
| 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 |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| cupidity | inordinate desire for wealth : avarice |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |