GRE Word List

STOIC

a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c.

The meaning of the word stoic is a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c..

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etymologythe 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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raila bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrier
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omnivorousfeeding on both animal and vegetable substances
sententiousgiven to or abounding in aphoristic expression
clariona medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones
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