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 |
|---|---|
| quip | a clever usually taunting remark : gibe |
| repertoire | a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| dire | exciting horror |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |