GRE Word List
SUBSUME
to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element
The meaning of the word subsume is to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
| rife | prevalent especially to an increasing degree |
| plump | to drop, sink, or come in contact suddenly or heavily |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
