GRE Word List
SKIFF
any of various small boats
The meaning of the word skiff is any of various small boats.
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| certitude | the state of being or feeling certain |
| 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 |
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| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
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