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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tomebook
abstractdisassociated from any specific instance
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accessiblecapable of being reached
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malevolenthaving, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred
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