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 |
|---|---|
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| dingy | dirty |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| capillary | resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form |