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 |
|---|---|
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| debonair | suave |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| untoward | difficult to guide, manage, or work with : unruly |
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |