GRE Word List
DISTEND
extend
The meaning of the word distend is extend.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| aspire | to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| mystic | mystical |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |