GRE Word List
SUBSISTENCE
real being : existence
The meaning of the word subsistence is real being : existence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| headstrong | not easily restrained : impatient of control, advice, or suggestions |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| grudging | unwilling |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| shift | to exchange for or replace by another : change |
| heresy | adherence to a religious opinion contrary to church dogma (see dogma |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| filial | of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter |