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 |
|---|---|
| sleek | slick |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| asteroid | any of the small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter |
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| debilitate | to impair the strength of : enfeeble |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |