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 |
|---|---|
| retribution | recompense |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| clandestine | marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy : surreptitious |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |