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 |
|---|---|
| muted | being mute : silent |
| rubble | broken fragments (as of rock) resulting from the decay or destruction of a building |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| crossbreed | hybridize |