GRE Word List
TENDENTIOUS
marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased
The meaning of the word tendentious is marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| 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 |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| fiat | an authoritative or arbitrary order : decree |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| stamp | to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument |
| precis | a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts |
| cunning | dexterous or crafty in the use of special resources (such as skill or knowledge) or in attaining an end |