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 |
|---|---|
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| foul | offensive to the senses : loathsome |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| espouse | marry |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| remiss | negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |