GRE Word List
TENTATIVE
not fully worked out or developed
The meaning of the word tentative is not fully worked out or developed.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apprehend | arrest |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| 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 |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| puzzle | to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally |
| replicate | duplicate |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |
| thespian | actor |