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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| stealth | a cautious, unobtrusive, and secretive way of moving or proceeding intended to avoid detection |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| haunt | to visit often : frequent |
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| 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 |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
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| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| maculated | marked with spots : blotched |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |