GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| besiege | to surround with armed forces |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| scurry | to move in or as if in a brisk pace : scamper |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| haggard | not tamed |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |