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 |
|---|---|
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| stock | a store or supply accumulated or available |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| calculated | apt |
| venture | to proceed especially in the face of danger |
| imperial | of, relating to, befitting, or suggestive of an empire or an emperor |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |