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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| solemnity | formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event |
| mutinous | disposed to or being in a state of mutiny : rebellious |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |