GRE Word List
EXPOSE
to deprive of shelter, protection, or care : subject to risk from a harmful action or condition
The meaning of the word expose is to deprive of shelter, protection, or care : subject to risk from a harmful action or condition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| obnoxious | odiously or disgustingly objectionable : highly offensive |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| fritter | a small mass of fried or sautéed batter often containing fruit or meat |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
| plait | pleat |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |