GRE Word List
ALLOCATE
to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute
The meaning of the word allocate is to apportion for a specific purpose or to particular persons or things : distribute.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| couple | two persons married, engaged, or otherwise romantically paired |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| overweening | arrogant |
| flicker | to move irregularly or unsteadily : flutter |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| jocose | given to joking : merry |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
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