GRE Word List
OFFENSIVE
making attack : aggressive
The meaning of the word offensive is making attack : aggressive.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| complaisant | marked by an inclination to please or oblige |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| 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 |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
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| bliss | complete happiness |
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| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
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