GRE Word List
THESPIAN
actor
The meaning of the word thespian is actor.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |