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 |
|---|---|
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| regime | regimen |
| privy | private |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |
| pliant | pliable |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| dabble | to work or involve oneself superficially or intermittently especially in a secondary activity or interest |