GRE Word List
ASCRIBE
to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing
The meaning of the word ascribe is to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| negligence | the quality or state of being negligent |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| commandeer | to compel to perform military service |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| manipulate | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| revelry | noisy partying or merrymaking |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |