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 |
|---|---|
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| germ | a small mass of living substance capable of developing into an organism or one of its parts |
| figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
| palette | a thin oval or rectangular board or tablet that a painter holds and mixes pigments on |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| rejuvenate | to make young or youthful again : give new vigor to |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |