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 |
|---|---|
| accommodate | to provide with something desired, needed, or suited |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |