GRE Word List
EXPATIATE
to move about freely or at will : wander
The meaning of the word expatiate is to move about freely or at will : wander.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |
| regent | a person who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign |
| auroral | dawn |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |