GRE Word List
AMPLIFY
to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis
The meaning of the word amplify is to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| woeful | full of woe : grievous |
| spoilsport | one who spoils the sport or pleasure of others |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |