GRE Word List
REQUIEM
a mass for the dead
The meaning of the word requiem is a mass for the dead.
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|---|---|
| halfhearted | lacking heart, spirit, or interest |
| dilemma | a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| negate | to deny the existence or truth of |
| tranquillity | the quality or state of being tranquil |
| 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 |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
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