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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protegeone who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence
quackto make the characteristic cry of a duck
stanzaa division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe
museto become absorbed in thought
clouta piece of cloth or leather : rag
bulliongold or silver considered as so much metal
rotunditymarked by roundness : rounded
mnemonicassisting or intended to assist memory
exacerbateto make more violent, bitter, or severe
flinchto withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince