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 |
|---|---|
| impute | to lay the responsibility or blame for (something) often falsely or unjustly |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| apocalyptic | of, relating to, or resembling an apocalypse |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |
| wont | accustomed |
| rig | to fit out with rigging |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |