GRE Word List
NUANCE
a subtle distinction or variation
The meaning of the word nuance is a subtle distinction or variation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| grotto | cave |
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| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
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| 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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