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 |
|---|---|
| anguish | extreme pain, distress, or anxiety |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| retrospective | of, relating to, or given to retrospection |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| unfeigned | not feigned or hypocritical : genuine |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |