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 |
|---|---|
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| aver | to declare positively |
| vixen | a female fox |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |