GRE Word List
PURCHASE
to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy
The meaning of the word purchase is to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy.
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|---|---|
| refurbish | to brighten or freshen up : renovate |
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| vendor | one that vends : seller |
| 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 |
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| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |
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