GRE Word List
ENHANCE
heighten
The meaning of the word enhance is heighten.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |