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 |
|---|---|
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| diligence | steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |