GRE Word List
NEGLIGENCE
the quality or state of being negligent
The meaning of the word negligence is the quality or state of being negligent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| vision | the act or power of seeing : sight |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |