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 |
|---|---|
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
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| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
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| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
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| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |