GRE Word List
UNDERSCORE
to draw a line under : underline
The meaning of the word underscore is to draw a line under : underline.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| cohorts | companion |
| unmitigated | not lessened : unrelieved |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |