GRE Word List
SUNDER
to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space
The meaning of the word sunder is to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| anomalous | inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected : irregular |
| rout | a state of wild confusion or disorderly retreat |
| 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 |
| infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
| accessible | capable of being reached |
| allegiance | the obligation of a feudal vassal to his liege lord |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| humanitarian | a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist |