GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| subpoena | a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure |
| pandemonium | a wild uproar (as because of anger or excitement in a crowd of people) |