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 |
|---|---|
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| kudos | praise given for achievement |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| charlatan | quack |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| slake | subside |