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 |
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| hale | free from defect, disease, or infirmity : sound |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| trunk | the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots |
| welter | writhe |
| demise | death |