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 |
|---|---|
| amoral | having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong |
| discerning | showing insight and understanding : discriminating |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |