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 |
|---|---|
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ยน/โโ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| quarantine | a period of 40 days |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| panacea | a remedy for all ills or difficulties : cure-all |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| exude | to ooze out |