GRE Word List
SPLICE
to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands
The meaning of the word splice is to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| rebate | to reduce the force or activity of : diminish |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
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| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| 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 |