GRE Word List
EMULATE
to strive to equal or excel
The meaning of the word emulate is to strive to equal or excel.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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beleaguer | besiege |
profligate | wildly extravagant |
soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
agitate | to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of : disturb |
stalemate | a drawing position in chess in which a player is not in checkmate but has no legal move to play |
dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |