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 |
|---|---|
| remediable | capable of being remedied |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| pliant | pliable |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |