GRE Word List
ASSAY
to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components
The meaning of the word assay is to analyze (something, such as an ore) for one or more specific components.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |
| render | to melt down |