GRE Word List
SCHISM
division
The meaning of the word schism is division.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| 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 |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| dint | force |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| ingrained | forming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| sagacious | of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning |
| scenario | an outline or synopsis of a play |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |