GRE Word List
STANCH
to check or stop the flowing of
The meaning of the word stanch is to check or stop the flowing of.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| 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 |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| resilient | characterized or marked by resilience: such as |
| termination | end in time or existence : conclusion |
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| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
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