GRE Word List
ELABORATE
planned or carried out with great care
The meaning of the word elaborate is planned or carried out with great care.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| tramp | to walk, tread, or step especially heavily |
| court | the residence or establishment of a sovereign or similar dignitary |
| overbearing | tending to overwhelm : overpowering |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| inflated | distended with air or gas |