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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| prelate | an ecclesiastic (such as a bishop or abbot) of superior rank |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |