GRE Word List
AGGRANDIZE
to make great or greater : increase
The meaning of the word aggrandize is to make great or greater : increase.
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| trenchant | keen |
| posthumous | born after the death of the father |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| intrepid | characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| bolt | a lightning stroke |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| 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 |
| dissension | disagreement |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |