GRE Word List
PERIPATETIC
a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism
The meaning of the word peripatetic is a follower of Aristotle or adherent of Aristotelianism.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| 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 |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |