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.
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qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
drama | a composition (see composition |
mottled | marked with spots of different colors : having blotches of two or more colors |
projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
mongrel | an individual resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds (see breed |
atrophy | decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
incontinent | not continent: such as |
reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |