GRE Word List
DISTEND
extend
The meaning of the word distend is extend.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| idle | not occupied or employed: such as |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
| resign | relegate |
| tureen | a deep and usually covered bowl from which foods (such as soup) are served |
| summation | the act or process of forming a sum : addition |
| cache | a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |