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 |
|---|---|
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| exhume | disinter |
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| impinge | encroach |