GRE Word List
PHILOLOGY
the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature
The meaning of the word philology is the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| replenish | to fill or build up again |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| plait | pleat |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| caliber | degree of mental capacity or moral quality |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| garnish | decorate |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |