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 |
|---|---|
| omnipresent | present in all places at all times |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| wag | to be in motion : stir |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| stampede | a wild headlong rush or flight of frightened animals |
| faction | a party or group (as within a government) that is often contentious or self-seeking : clique |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |