GRE Word List
SUBSERVIENT
useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate
The meaning of the word subservient is useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
| determinate | having defined limits |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |