GRE Word List
CONSECRATE
dedicated to a sacred purpose
The meaning of the word consecrate is dedicated to a sacred purpose.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| volition | the power of choosing or determining : will |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| turpitude | inherent baseness : depravity |
| revulsion | a strong pulling or drawing away : withdrawal |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| rotunda | a round building |