GRE Word List
PROMULGATE
to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim
The meaning of the word promulgate is to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| airy | of or relating to air : atmospheric |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| fermentation | the enzyme-catalyzed anaerobic breakdown of an energy-rich compound (such as a carbohydrate to carbon dioxide and alcohol or to an organic acid) by the action of microorganisms (such as bacteria or yeast) that occurs naturally and is commonly used in the production of various products (such as food, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals) especially by controlling microbial enzymatic activity |
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| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |