GRE Word List
RUTHLESS
having no pity : merciless
The meaning of the word ruthless is having no pity : merciless.
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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 |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| laud | praise |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |