GRE Word List
ABRIDGE
to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense
The meaning of the word abridge is to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| disgorge | to discharge by the throat and mouth : vomit |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| chase | the hunting of wild animals |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |