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 |
|---|---|
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
| bludgeon | a short stick that usually has one thick or loaded end and is used as a weapon |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| centrifuge | a machine using centrifugal force for separating substances of different densities, for removing moisture, or for simulating gravitational effects |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |