GRE Word List
RIBALD
marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude
The meaning of the word ribald is marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| mendicant | beggar |
| 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 |
| low | having a small upward extension or elevation |
| pore | to gaze intently |
| elated | marked by high spirits : exultant |
| shade | comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light |
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |