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 |
|---|---|
| tart | agreeably sharp or acid to the taste |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| trough | a long shallow often V-shaped receptacle for the drinking water or feed of domestic animals |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| manifold | marked by diversity or variety |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |