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 |
|---|---|
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| brawny | muscular |
| suspense | the state of being suspended : suspension |
| gloss | a surface luster or brightness : shine |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| vindictive | disposed to seek revenge : vengeful |