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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| parable | a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle |
| blithe | lacking due thought or consideration : casual |
| rightful | just |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| eulogy | a commendatory oration or writing especially in honor of one deceased |