GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| executioner | one who executes |
| boost | to push or shove up from below |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |