GRE Word List
MISSIVE
a written communication : letter
The meaning of the word missive is a written communication : letter.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| sage | one (such as a profound philosopher) distinguished for wisdom |
| authoritative | having, marked by, or proceeding from authority |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| kleptomaniac | a person evidencing kleptomania |
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| indulgent | willing to allow excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration : indulging or characterized by indulgence |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| libretto | the text of a work (such as an opera) for the musical theater |