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 |
|---|---|
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| reciprocate | to give and take mutually |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| polyglot | one who is polyglot |
| lag | one that lags or is last |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |