GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inclement | lacking mildness: such as |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| agility | the quality or state of being agile : nimbleness |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| trigger | a piece (such as a lever) connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar |