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 |
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flirt | to move erratically : flit |
recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
subsistence | real being : existence |
hothead | a hotheaded person |
lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
arid | excessively dry |
snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |