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

WordMeaning
travestya debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation
casualtya military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action
divergeto move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart
microcosma little world
conscripta conscripted person (such as a military recruit)
unprecedentedhaving no precedent : novel
holocausta sacrifice (see sacrifice
outragean act of violence or brutality
marredto ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil
engrossto copy or write in a large hand