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 |
|---|---|
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |
| maladroit | lacking adroitness : inept |
| anthem | a song or hymn of praise or gladness |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |