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 |
|---|---|
| charlatan | quack |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| dummy | a person who is incapable of speaking |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |