GRE Word List
MONOGRAPH
a learned treatise on a small area of learning
The meaning of the word monograph is a learned treatise on a small area of learning.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ยน/โโ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| marrow | bone marrow |
| aviary | a place for keeping birds confined |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |