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 |
|---|---|
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| congruent | congruous |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |