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 |
|---|---|
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| sublimate | sublime |
| imprudent | not prudent : lacking discretion, wisdom, or good judgment |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |