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
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inextricable | forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free |
far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
wry | twist |
ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |
badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |