GRE Word List
DISTEND
extend
The meaning of the word distend is extend.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| conceit | favorable opinion |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| dazzle | to lose clear vision especially from looking at bright light |
| orator | one who delivers an oration |
| superannuated | outmoded |
| ashen | of, relating to, or made from ash wood |
| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |