GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sly | wise in practical affairs |
| vibrant | pulsating with life, vigor, or activity |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |
| hut | an often small and temporary dwelling of simple construction : shack |
| arable | fit for or used for the growing of crops |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| geriatrics | a branch of medicine that deals with the problems and diseases of old age and the medical care and treatment of aging people |