GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| surpass | to become better, greater, or stronger than : exceed |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| venison | the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend : recondite |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |