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 |
|---|---|
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| insipid | lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| incompatible | not compatible: such as |