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 |
|---|---|
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| disarray | a lack of order or sequence : confusion |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| altruistic | relating to or given to altruism: |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |