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 |
|---|---|
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| aphasia | loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage (as from a stroke, head injury, or infection) |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |