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.
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| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| chorus | a company of singers and dancers in Athenian drama participating in or commenting on the action |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| obstreperous | marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : clamorous |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| abide | to bear patiently : tolerate |
| paste | a dough that contains a considerable proportion of fat and is used for pastry crust or fancy rolls |