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 |
|---|---|
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| vernal | of, relating to, or occurring in the spring |
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| apogee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth |
| leash | a line for leading or restraining an animal |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |