GRE Word List
TERMINOLOGY
the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject
The meaning of the word terminology is the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| knoll | a small round hill : mound |
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |