GRE Word List
VICARIOUS
experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another
The meaning of the word vicarious is experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| brackish | somewhat salty |
| reverie | daydream |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
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| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| roue | a man devoted to a life of sensual pleasure : rake |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |