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 |
|---|---|
| flirt | to move erratically : flit |
| recumbent | suggestive of repose : leaning |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| arid | excessively dry |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |