GRE Word List
TUMID
marked by swelling : swollen
The meaning of the word tumid is marked by swelling : swollen.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| fester | to generate pus |
| 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 |
| egregious | conspicuous |
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| inanimate | not animate: |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |