GRE Word List

UNDERLYING

lying beneath or below

The meaning of the word underlying is lying beneath or below.

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contextthe parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
drollhaving a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality
dementedmad
cohabitto live together as or as if a married couple
ennuia feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction : boredom
incursiona hostile entrance into a territory : raid
draconianof, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him
dichotomya division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities
authoritarianof, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority