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 |
|---|---|
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |
| canine | a conical pointed tooth |
| consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
| astronomical | of or relating to astronomy |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| eddy | a current of water or air running contrary to the main current |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |