GRE Word List
WAKE
to be or remain awake
The meaning of the word wake is to be or remain awake.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| 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 |
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error : mistaken |