GRE Word List
ABBREVIATE
to make briefer
The meaning of the word abbreviate is to make briefer.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expertise | the skill of an expert |
| dissertation | an extended usually written treatment of a subject |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| martial | of, relating to, or suited for war or a warrior |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |