GRE Word List
MONOLITHIC
of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge
The meaning of the word monolithic is of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge.
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| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| 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 |
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