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 |
|---|---|
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| proscenium | the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater |
| dull | tedious |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |
| dominate | rule |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| perdition | eternal damnation |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |