GRE Word List
SUBSISTENCE
real being : existence
The meaning of the word subsistence is real being : existence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| peon | any of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |
| entourage | one's attendants or associates |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| 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 |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |