GRE Word List
SHADE
comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light
The meaning of the word shade is comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light.
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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 |
| babble | to talk enthusiastically or excessively |
| affinity | relationship by marriage |
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| aver | to declare positively |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |