GRE Word List
TRAPPINGS
outward signs
The meaning of the word trappings is outward signs.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| impassive | giving no sign of feeling or emotion : expressionless |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| arraign | to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge |
| expository | of, relating to, or containing exposition |
| 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 |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| caption | the part of a legal document that shows where, when, and by what authority it was taken, found, or executed |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |