GRE Word List
NEOLOGISM
a new word, usage, or expression
The meaning of the word neologism is a new word, usage, or expression.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| zephyr | a breeze from the west |
| disquisition | a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| retentive | having the power, property, or capacity of retaining |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| connoisseur | expert |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |