GRE Word List
WILLOWY
abounding with willows
The meaning of the word willowy is abounding with willows.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| 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 |
| convention | agreement |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |