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 |
|---|---|
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| pander | to act as a pander |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| opulence | wealth |
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| repellent | serving or tending to drive away or ward off |
| microcosm | a little world |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |