GRE Word List
ABBREVIATE
to make briefer
The meaning of the word abbreviate is to make briefer.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |
| agrarian | of or relating to fields or lands or their tenure |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |