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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phariseea member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law
execrabledeserving to be execrated : detestable
wreakbring about
bleakexposed and barren and often windswept
gravitydignity or sobriety of bearing
staccatocut short or apart in performing : disconnected
obtusenot pointed or acute : blunt
eerieso mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine
loiterto delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle
awryoff the correct or expected course : amiss