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 |
|---|---|
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| sedition | incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| tinge | a slight staining or suffusing shade or color |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| prolific | producing young or fruit especially freely : fruitful |
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |