GRE Word List
ABATE
to decrease in force or intensity
The meaning of the word abate is to decrease in force or intensity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| imperial | of, relating to, befitting, or suggestive of an empire or an emperor |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| cite | to call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court) |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |