GRE Word List
REGIMENT
a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions
The meaning of the word regiment is a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions.
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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 |
| pending | during |
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| chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
| cubicle | a sleeping compartment partitioned off from a large room |
| turncoat | one who switches to an opposing side or party |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |