GRE Word List
EMBODY
to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate
The meaning of the word embody is to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| collate | to compare critically |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| jocular | said or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |