GRE Word List
NURTURE
training
The meaning of the word nurture is training.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| 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 |
| cipher | zero |
| astigmatism | a defect of an optical system (such as a lens) causing rays from a point to fail to meet in a focal point resulting in a blurred and imperfect image |
| philology | the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature |
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| suppliant | supplicant |