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 |
|---|---|
| environ | encircle |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| misconduct | mismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities |
| provender | dry food for domestic animals : feed |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |