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 |
|---|---|
| culinary | of or relating to the kitchen or cookery |
| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| primate | a bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |