GRE Word List
DEBASE
to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character
The meaning of the word debase is to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| gape | to open the mouth wide |
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| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
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| ponderous | of very great weight |
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