GRE Word List
METHODICAL
arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order
The meaning of the word methodical is arranged, characterized by, or performed with method or order.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| 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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| shambles | a meat market |
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| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
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