GRE Word List
ASSIMILATE
to take into the mind and thoroughly understand
The meaning of the word assimilate is to take into the mind and thoroughly understand.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| coalesce | to grow together |
| modish | fashionable |
| opus | work |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| condescend | to assume an air of superiority |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| leave-taking | departure |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| conducive | tending to promote or assist |