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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| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
| jabber | to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| reciprocate | to give and take mutually |