GRE Word List
ABBREVIATE
to make briefer
The meaning of the word abbreviate is to make briefer.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| sheer | unqualified |