GRE Word List
NEMESIS
the Greek goddess of retributive justice
The meaning of the word nemesis is the Greek goddess of retributive justice.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gazette | newspaper |
| encumber | weigh down |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| hapless | having no luck : unfortunate |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| pedantic | of, relating to, or being a pedant |
| 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 |