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 |
|---|---|
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| benison | blessing |
| rapture | an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |