GRE Word List
AUGMENT
to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense
The meaning of the word augment is to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| politic | political |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| crass | gross |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |