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 |
|---|---|
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| incident | an occurrence of an action or situation that is a separate unit of experience : happening |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| prong | fork |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |