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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| annotate | to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |