GRE Word List
GRATE
grating
The meaning of the word grate is grating.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| piebald | composed of incongruous parts |
| spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| sustain | to give support or relief to |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| ecosystem | the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |