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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| evenhanded | fair |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
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