GRE Word List

CONSECRATE

dedicated to a sacred purpose

The meaning of the word consecrate is dedicated to a sacred purpose.

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etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
notcha V-shaped indentation
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stratageman artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy
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maritimeof, relating to, or bordering on the sea
ingrainedforming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated