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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| detraction | a lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty criticism : belittling |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| maraud | to roam about and raid in search of plunder |
| elliptical | of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| caucus | a closed meeting of a group of persons belonging to the same political party or faction usually to select candidates or to decide on policy |