GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| demented | mad |
| cohabit | to live together as or as if a married couple |
| ennui | a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |