GRE Word List
ABBREVIATE
to make briefer
The meaning of the word abbreviate is to make briefer.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |