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 |
|---|---|
| raconteur | a person who excels in telling anecdotes |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |
| dilute | attenuate |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |