GRE Word List
SUPINE
lying on the back or with the face upward
The meaning of the word supine is lying on the back or with the face upward.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| parsimony | the quality of being careful with money or resources : thrift |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| demure | reserved |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |