GRE Word List
STINT
a period of time spent at a particular activity
The meaning of the word stint is a period of time spent at a particular activity.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inundate | overwhelm |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| pushy | aggressive often to an objectionable degree : forward |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| onomatopoeia | the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (such as buzz, hiss) |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| 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 |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |