GRE Word List
DILUTE
attenuate
The meaning of the word dilute is attenuate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe |
| hull | the outer covering of a fruit or seed |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| aggregate | formed by the collection of units or particles into a body, mass, or amount : collective |
| buxom | vigorously or healthily plump |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| gyroscope | a 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 |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |