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 |
|---|---|
| leeway | an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance |
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| entreat | to plead with especially in order to persuade : ask urgently |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |