GRE Word List

DILATE

to become enlarged or widened

The meaning of the word dilate is to become enlarged or widened.

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indigencea level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking
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slakesubside
impenitentnot penitent
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