GRE Word List
SURMISE
a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture
The meaning of the word surmise is a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |
| disinterested | not having the mind or feelings engaged (see engaged |
| exhume | disinter |
| tribute | something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved |
| culpable | meriting condemnation or blame especially as wrong or harmful |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |