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 |
|---|---|
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| harbor | a place of security and comfort : refuge |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| lament | to mourn aloud : wail |
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |