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 |
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| marked | having an identifying mark |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| festive | of, relating to, or suitable for a feast or festival |
| evoke | to call forth or up: such as |
| cipher | zero |
| finesse | refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture |
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| balmy | having the qualities of balm : soothing |