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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pharisee | a 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 |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| wreak | bring about |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| gravity | dignity or sobriety of bearing |
| staccato | cut short or apart in performing : disconnected |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |