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 |
|---|---|
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |
| chuckle | to laugh inwardly or quietly |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| optician | a maker of or dealer in optical items and instruments |
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| actuary | clerk |