GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |
| choice | the act of choosing : selection |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |