GRE Word List
BOOST
to push or shove up from below
The meaning of the word boost is to push or shove up from below.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| satiate | filled to satiety |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| clime | climate |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| billowing | wave |
| smart | having or showing a high degree of mental ability : intelligent |
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| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |