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
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mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
slander | to utter slander against : defame |
browbeat | to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech : bully |
grate | grating |
mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |