GRE Word List
EXEMPLIFY
to show or illustrate by example
The meaning of the word exemplify is to show or illustrate by example.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adjutant | a staff officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who assists the commanding officer and is responsible especially for correspondence |
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| potential | existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| 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 |
| manifesto | a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer |
| weary | exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |