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 |
|---|---|
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| random | a haphazard course |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| fuddle | booze |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |