GRE Word List
DISTEND
extend
The meaning of the word distend is extend.
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amenities | something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment |
substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
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antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
procurement | the act or process of procuring |
indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
estimable | capable of being estimated |
sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
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