GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| docile | easily taught |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| foster | having, relating to, or being the relationship between a foster parent and the child who the foster parent cares for |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| implode | to burst inward |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| inebriated | exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated |
| monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |