GRE Word List
PEDESTAL
the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration
The meaning of the word pedestal is the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fetid | having a heavy offensive smell |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| 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 |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| exploit | deed |
| lull | to cause to sleep or rest : soothe |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| crass | gross |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |