GRE Word List
PONDEROUS
of very great weight
The meaning of the word ponderous is of very great weight.
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|---|---|
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| misconstrue | to interpret (something, such as a statement or action) wrongly : misinterpret |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |
| 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 |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
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