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 |
|---|---|
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| rip | to tear or split apart or open |
| seclusion | the act of secluding : the condition of being secluded |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| narrative | something that is narrated : story |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| bereft | deprived or robbed of the possession or use of something |
| cubicle | a sleeping compartment partitioned off from a large room |