GRE Word List
APPRECIATE
to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of
The meaning of the word appreciate is to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| ichthyology | a branch of zoology that deals with fishes |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| demise | death |