GRE Word List
MIMICRY
an instance of mimicking
The meaning of the word mimicry is an instance of mimicking.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| 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 |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| voodoo | a religion that is derived from African polytheism and ancestor worship and is practiced chiefly in Haiti |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |