GRE Word List
ATTRIBUTE
a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something
The meaning of the word attribute is a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| debauch | to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| drab | slattern |
| espionage | the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |