GRE Word List
ENGROSS
to copy or write in a large hand
The meaning of the word engross is to copy or write in a large hand.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| swear | to utter or take solemnly (an oath) |
| privy | private |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| coy | marked by cute, coquettish, or artful playfulness |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |