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 |
|---|---|
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| mannered | having manners of a specified kind |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
| plane | airplane |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |