GRE Word List
ANCILLARY
subordinate
The meaning of the word ancillary is subordinate.
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Word | Meaning |
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douse | to plunge into water |
descry | to catch sight of |
anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
evenhanded | fair |
stigma | a mark of shame or discredit : stain |
imperious | marked by arrogant assurance : domineering |
fruition | pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment |
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 |