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 |
|---|---|
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| tart | agreeably sharp or acid to the taste |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| appellation | an identifying name or title : designation |
| 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 |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |