GRE Word List
ACADEMIC
of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning
The meaning of the word academic is of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning.
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| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| microcosm | a little world |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| selective | of, relating to, or characterized by selection : selecting or tending to select |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| onus | burden |
| pry | to look closely or inquisitively |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |
| muted | being mute : silent |