GRE Word List
GRADUATE
to receive an academic degree or diploma
The meaning of the word graduate is to receive an academic degree or diploma.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| champion | a winner of first prize or first place in competition |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| saline | consisting of or containing salt |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| proxy | the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another |