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 |
|---|---|
| pungent | sharply painful |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| scourge | whip |
| beatitude | a state of utmost bliss |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| antique | existing since or belonging to earlier times : ancient |