GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| killjoy | one who spoils the pleasure of others |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |