GRE Word List
PASSIVE
acted upon by an external agency
The meaning of the word passive is acted upon by an external agency.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
| warranty | a real covenant binding the grantor of an estate and the grantor's heirs to warrant and defend the title |
| lampoon | satire |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| aspire | to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| deplore | to feel or express grief for |