GRE Word List
ABASE
to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem
The meaning of the word abase is to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| asylum | an inviolable place of refuge and protection giving shelter to criminals and debtors : sanctuary |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| scrupulous | having moral integrity : acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| swarthy | of a dark color, complexion, or cast |
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