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 |
|---|---|
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| incompatible | not compatible: such as |
| astral | of, relating to, or coming from the stars |
| denomination | an act of denominating |