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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repastsomething taken as food : meal
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hoarygray or white with or as if with age
compendiuma brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract
gaudyostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented
sullyto make soiled or tarnished : defile
convergeto tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet
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stratifiedformed, deposited, or arranged in stable layers or strata
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