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 |
|---|---|
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| immaculate | spotlessly clean |
| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
| paltry | inferior |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |