GRE Word List

MNEMONIC

assisting or intended to assist memory

The meaning of the word mnemonic is assisting or intended to assist memory.

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WordMeaning
aptitudeinclination
substantivehaving substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned
enactto establish by legal and authoritative act
contextthe parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning
renditionthe act or result of rendering something: such as
diffidencethe quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident
etymologythe 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
exacerbateto make more violent, bitter, or severe
largessliberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior
tomebook