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 |
|---|---|
| significant | having meaning |
| balmy | having the qualities of balm : soothing |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| mischance | bad luck |
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |