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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| natal | native |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |