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 |
|---|---|
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| antecede | precede |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| underscore | to draw a line under : underline |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |