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 |
|---|---|
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| mauve | a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| sway | the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |