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 |
|---|---|
| increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |
| transpire | to take place : go on |
| temper | heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion |
| contest | strive |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |