GRE Word List
EXTENUATE
to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate
The meaning of the word extenuate is to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |