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 |
|---|---|
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| venture | to proceed especially in the face of danger |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| 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 |
| trappings | outward signs |