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 |
|---|---|
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| clairvoyant | having clairvoyance : able to see beyond the range of ordinary perception |
| scrupulous | having moral integrity : acting in strict regard for what is considered right or proper |
| sear | being dried and withered |
| avocation | a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |