GRE Word List
DILUTE
attenuate
The meaning of the word dilute is attenuate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |
| colloquy | conversation |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| gestate | to carry in the uterus during pregnancy |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| sedentary | not migratory : settled |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |