GRE Word List
TYPHOON
a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea
The meaning of the word typhoon is a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| 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 |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| nurture | training |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| tract | a system of body parts or organs that act together to perform some function |