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 |
|---|---|
| foreshadow | to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand : prefigure |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| subsidy | a grant or gift of money: such as |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| pinnacle | an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and used especially in Gothic construction to give weight especially to a buttress |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| realm | kingdom |
| lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |