GRE Word List
EXACERBATE
to make more violent, bitter, or severe
The meaning of the word exacerbate is to make more violent, bitter, or severe.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| distort | to twist (see twist |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| solicitor | one that solicits |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |