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 |
|---|---|
| speechless | unable to speak : dumb |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |