GRE Word List
TREAD
to step or walk on or over
The meaning of the word tread is to step or walk on or over.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |
| nexus | connection |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| 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 |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |