GRE Word List
ABBREVIATE
to make briefer
The meaning of the word abbreviate is to make briefer.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| implode | to burst inward |
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| doctrine | a principle or position or the body of principles in a branch of knowledge or system of belief : dogma |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| agglomeration | the action or process of collecting in a mass |