GRE Word List
RATION
a food allowance for one day
The meaning of the word ration is a food allowance for one day.
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| Word | Meaning |
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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 |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| myopic | affected by myopia : of, relating to, or exhibiting myopia : nearsighted |
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| auxiliary | offering or providing help |
| judiciary | a system of courts of law |
| agog | full of intense interest or excitement : eager |
| collate | to compare critically |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |