GRE Word List
ORTHOGRAPHY
the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage
The meaning of the word orthography is the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| manacle | a shackle for the hand or wrist : handcuff |
| septic | of, relating to, or causing putrefaction |