GRE Word List
VISION
the act or power of seeing : sight
The meaning of the word vision is the act or power of seeing : sight.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| potpourri | a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| 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 |
| seclusion | the act of secluding : the condition of being secluded |