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 |
|---|---|
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| convivial | relating to, occupied with, or fond of feasting, drinking, and good company |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| fiasco | a complete failure |