GRE Word List
REMOTE
separated by an interval or space greater than usual
The meaning of the word remote is separated by an interval or space greater than usual.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |
| 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 |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| sumptuous | extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |