GRE Word List
SUBSTANTIVE
having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned
The meaning of the word substantive is having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dabble | to work or involve oneself superficially or intermittently especially in a secondary activity or interest |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| causal | expressing or indicating cause : causative |
| meander | a winding path or course |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| 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 |
| clasp | a device (such as a hook) for holding objects or parts together |
| aloft | at or to a great height |
| reciprocal | inversely related : opposite |