GRE Word List
STEEP
lofty
The meaning of the word steep is lofty.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| metaphysical | of or relating to metaphysics |
| saunter | to walk about in an idle or leisurely manner : stroll |
| nuptial | of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony |
| 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 |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |