GRE Word List
ASSUMPTION
a taking to or upon oneself
The meaning of the word assumption is a taking to or upon oneself.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| fulsome | characterized by abundance : copious |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |