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 |
|---|---|
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| fleck | streak |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| dissertation | an extended usually written treatment of a subject |
| shunt | to turn off to one side : shift |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |
| relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |