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 |
|---|---|
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| iridescent | having or exhibiting iridescence |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| appraise | to set a value on : to estimate the amount of |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |