GRE Word List
OSTENSIBLE
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| paradigm | example |
| tan | to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| 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 |
| imprecation | curse |
| retiring | reserved |