GRE Word List
UNDERLYING
lying beneath or below
The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| irrepressible | impossible to repress, restrain, or control |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| nib | bill |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| sidereal | of, relating to, or expressed in relation to stars or constellations : astral |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| disinter | to take out of the grave or tomb |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |