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 |
|---|---|
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| reactionary | relating to, marked by, or favoring reaction |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| nauseous | causing nausea or disgust : nauseating |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |