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 |
|---|---|
| relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| 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 |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |