GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
| abusive | using harsh, insulting language |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| allude | to make indirect reference |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| intrinsic | belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| progeny | descendants |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |