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 |
|---|---|
| congenial | pleasant |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |