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 |
|---|---|
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| puerile | juvenile |