GRE Word List

DILUTE

attenuate

The meaning of the word dilute is attenuate.

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anecdotea usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
abjectsunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe
hullthe outer covering of a fruit or seed
decimateto select by lot and kill every tenth man of
aggregateformed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective
buxomvigorously or healthily plump
irrefutableimpossible to refute : incontrovertible
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
scurriloususing or given to coarse language
labilereadily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable