GRE Word List
PARADIGM
example
The meaning of the word paradigm is example.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| 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 |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| weird | of strange or extraordinary character : odd |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| acclimate | to adapt (someone) to a new temperature, altitude, climate, environment, or situation |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |