GRE Word List
ILLUMINATE
to supply or brighten with light
The meaning of the word illuminate is to supply or brighten with light.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| candor | unreserved, honest, or sincere expression : forthrightness |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| sleek | slick |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |
| ruminate | to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |