GRE Word List
ELUCIDATE
to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis
The meaning of the word elucidate is to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| purse | a small bag for money |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| scion | descendant |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| unwarranted | lacking adequate or official support : not warranted : unjustified |