GRE Word List
ACCELERATE
to move faster : to gain speed
The meaning of the word accelerate is to move faster : to gain speed.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |
| relegate | to send into exile : banish |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |