GRE Word List
SUBSISTENCE
real being : existence
The meaning of the word subsistence is real being : existence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
| assay | to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| 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 |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| approbation | commendation |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| unkempt | not combed |