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 |
|---|---|
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| ramification | branch |
| fledgling | a young bird just fledged (see fledge |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| veer | to change direction or course |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| elysian | of or relating to Elysium |