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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| divine | of, relating to, or proceeding directly from God (see god |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| concur | to express agreement |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| enliven | to give life, action, or spirit to : animate |
| oversee | survey |
| etymology | the 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 |
| din | a loud continued noise |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |