GRE Word List
TREASURE
wealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded
The meaning of the word treasure is wealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |
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| aloft | at or to a great height |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| 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 |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |