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 |
|---|---|
| lout | to bow in respect |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |