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 |
|---|---|
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| expound | to set forth : state |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |