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 |
|---|---|
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| dingy | dirty |
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| barrage | a dam placed in a watercourse to increase the depth of water or to divert it into a channel for navigation or irrigation |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| heyday | the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity |