GRE Word List
SHARD
a piece or fragment of a brittle substance
The meaning of the word shard is a piece or fragment of a brittle substance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| turncoat | one who switches to an opposing side or party |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| forte | one's strong point |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| 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 |
| tramp | to walk, tread, or step especially heavily |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |