GRE Word List
DISTEND
extend
The meaning of the word distend is extend.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |
| catapult | an ancient military device for hurling missiles |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |