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 |
|---|---|
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| obtuse | not pointed or acute : blunt |
| rusticate | to go into or reside in the country : follow a rustic life |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| dispense | to divide and share out according to a plan : to deal out in portions |
| malediction | curse |
| gild | to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| scintilla | spark |