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 |
|---|---|
| berate | to scold or condemn vehemently and at length |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| papyrus | a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| rostrum | an ancient Roman platform for public orators |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |