GRE Word List
RAMIFICATION
branch
The meaning of the word ramification is branch.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| slew | a large number |
| 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 |
| voodoo | a religion that is derived from African polytheism and ancestor worship and is practiced chiefly in Haiti |