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 |
|---|---|
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgment : award |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| acoustics | a science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| approbation | commendation |