GRE Word List
FACILITATE
to make easier : help bring about
The meaning of the word facilitate is to make easier : help bring about.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ghastly | terrifyingly horrible to the senses : frightening |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| dilute | attenuate |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |