GRE Word List
ABBREVIATE
to make briefer
The meaning of the word abbreviate is to make briefer.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tepid | moderately warm : lukewarm |
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| roster | a roll or list of personnel |
| shove | to push along |
| assay | to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| cubicle | a sleeping compartment partitioned off from a large room |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |