GRE Word List
SERVITUDE
a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life
The meaning of the word servitude is a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of life.
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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 |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| churlish | of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl : vulgar |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| verisimilitude | the quality or state of being verisimilar |
| reparable | capable of being repaired |
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |