GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| overweening | arrogant |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| putrescent | undergoing putrefaction : becoming putrid |
| providence | divine guidance or care |
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |