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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pungent | sharply painful |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| enterprising | marked by an independent energetic spirit and by readiness to act |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| gerontocracy | rule by elders |
| referendum | the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |
| categorical | absolute |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |