GRE Word List
BID
to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance
The meaning of the word bid is to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| paradigm | example |
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| throes | pang |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |