GRE Word List
ABASE
to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem
The meaning of the word abase is to lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
| rivulet | a small stream |
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |