GRE Word List

SUBSISTENCE

real being : existence

The meaning of the word subsistence is real being : existence.

Random words

WordMeaning
peonany of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as
curban edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter
entourageone's attendants or associates
smudgeto make a smudge on
etymologythe 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
sacrilegiouscommitting or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object
fraya usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute
adjournto suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time
beneficiarya person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something
grovelto creep with the face to the ground : crawl