GRE Word List
PURSE
a small bag for money
The meaning of the word purse is a small bag for money.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
| internecine | of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group |
| sober | not intoxicated |
| downcast | low in spirit : dejected |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| potentate | ruler |
| 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 |