GRE Word List
PITFALL
trap
The meaning of the word pitfall is trap.
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|---|---|
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| increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |
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| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |