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 |
|---|---|
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| variegated | having discrete markings of different colors |
| adage | a saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observation |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |