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 |
|---|---|
| dialectical | of, relating to, or in accordance with dialectic |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| tertiary | of third rank, importance, or value |
| descry | to catch sight of |