GRE Word List
FORSAKE
to renounce or turn away from entirely
The meaning of the word forsake is to renounce or turn away from entirely.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adapt | to make fit (as for a new use) often by modification |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| plumber | a dealer or worker in lead |
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
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| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| pellucid | admitting maximum passage of light without diffusion or distortion |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |