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 |
|---|---|
| extraneous | existing on or coming from the outside |
| wade | to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air |
| abolish | to end the observance or effect of (something, such as a law) : to completely do away with (something) : annul |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| gnarl | snarl |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |