GRE Word List
DILATE
to become enlarged or widened
The meaning of the word dilate is to become enlarged or widened.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| commonplace | commonly found or seen : ordinary |
| poise | balance |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |