GRE Word List
EXPOUND
to set forth : state
The meaning of the word expound is to set forth : state.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pigment | a substance that imparts black or white or a color to other materials |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| sodden | dull or expressionless especially from continued indulgence in alcoholic beverages |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| overweening | arrogant |