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

WordMeaning
elegya poem in elegiac couplets
chameleonany of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal
serebeing dried and withered
germanebeing at once relevant and appropriate : fitting
authoritarianof, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority
contextthe parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning
spawnto deposit or fertilize spawn
franticemotionally out of control
invalidnot valid:
dispatchto send off or away with promptness or speed