GRE Word List
ALLUDE
to make indirect reference
The meaning of the word allude is to make indirect reference.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| humble | not proud or haughty : not arrogant or assertive |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| drama | a composition (see composition |
| gust | the sensation of taste |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |