GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| accord | to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |