GRE Word List
PASSIVE
acted upon by an external agency
The meaning of the word passive is acted upon by an external agency.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| esoteric | designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone |
| harass | exhaust |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| saunter | to walk about in an idle or leisurely manner : stroll |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |