GRE Word List
ENGAGE
to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end
The meaning of the word engage is to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| drab | slattern |
| referendum | the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative |
| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| delirium | an acute (see acute |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| disport | sport |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |