GRE Word List
BASE
the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation
The meaning of the word base is the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| languor | weakness or weariness of body or mind |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |