GRE Word List
SUBSISTENCE
real being : existence
The meaning of the word subsistence is real being : existence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| thrifty | given to or marked by economy and good management |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |
| cater | to provide a supply of food |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |