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 |
|---|---|
| revelry | noisy partying or merrymaking |
| simplistic | excessively simple or simplified : treating a problem or subject with false simplicity by omitting or ignoring complicating factors or details |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| alcove | a small recessed section of a room : nook |
| intrude | to thrust oneself in without invitation, permission, or welcome |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |