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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
