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 |
|---|---|
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| engender | beget |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| hive | a container for housing honeybees |
| enliven | to give life, action, or spirit to : animate |
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| prank | trick |
| venturesome | inclined to court or incur risk or danger : daring |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |