GRE Word List
EMPIRICAL
originating in or based on observation or experience
The meaning of the word empirical is originating in or based on observation or experience.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| charlatan | quack |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |