GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| fluctuate | to shift back and forth uncertainly |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| entity | being |
| farce | stuff |
| lace | to draw together the edges of by or as if by a lace passed through eyelets |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |