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 |
|---|---|
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |