GRE Word List
ASSUMPTION
a taking to or upon oneself
The meaning of the word assumption is a taking to or upon oneself.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| finale | the close or termination of something: such as |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| diadem | crown |
| determinate | having defined limits |