GRE Word List
ALIAS
otherwise called : otherwise known as
The meaning of the word alias is otherwise called : otherwise known as.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| beneficial | producing good results or helpful effects : conferring benefits (see benefit |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |