GRE Word List
SUBSISTENCE
real being : existence
The meaning of the word subsistence is real being : existence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| clipper | one that clips something |
| incognito | with one's identity concealed |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| shard | a piece or fragment of a brittle substance |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |