GRE Word List
UNDERSTATE
to represent as less than is the case
The meaning of the word understate is to represent as less than is the case.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |
| espouse | marry |
| urchin | hedgehog |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| impoverish | to make poor |