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 |
|---|---|
| dissident | disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| neophyte | a new convert : proselyte |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |