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 |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| demented | mad |
| bode | to indicate (something, such as a future event) by signs : presage |
| vitriolic | bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |