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 |
|---|---|
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| hapless | having no luck : unfortunate |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| throes | pang |
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |