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 |
|---|---|
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| maverick | an unbranded range animal |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| diverge | to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| realm | kingdom |
| crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |