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 |
|---|---|
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| inamorata | a woman with whom one is in love or has intimate relations |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| diligence | steady, earnest, and energetic effort : devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking : assiduity |